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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Right... and that's a crime. And should be. If you actually go to the extent of harming people, you're guilty of assault. That's how it's supposed to work.
Only if it directly encourages violence. Which Trump has done a couple of times at his rallies. "Facilitates" is too broad a term.
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And yet this thread shows so much hand-wringing about Resa Aslan "defaming" Sam Harris--if he lied, he lied, sure. But there are millions of other examples of people defaming and lying about others. Trump literally tried to paint the population of an entire country as rapists and criminals.
I'm pretty sure any defamation of Harris by Aslan isn't going to result in any danger of bodily harm.
The repeated awful things said by those such as Trump, Limbaugh, Coulter, Alex Jones, etc very well could--and have--lead to various groups being harmed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...gressman-says/